PHDE638 Organization Development (2 cr.)

This course focuses on applying organizational development, systems thinking, framing, and organization leadership to the practice of development. This course stresses the interdependence of organizational expertise and effective leadership and the specialized skills and methodologies of development for successful fundraising.

Upon completion of the course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Assess and utilize basic concepts of organization development.
2. Apply concepts of systems thinking and organizational learning.
3. Synthesize and utilize organization development concepts and methodologies within a comprehensive framework of organization leadership.
4. Apply framing methodology to analyze organization dynamics and issues, and identify points of leverage for organizational change.
5. Evaluate and create solutions to complex organization issues.